I have been given a foot in the door of sorts with pegasus, chaingang or prestige. Has anyone got any experience of these guys and would they be a good place to learn the trade? I am 100% confident I can find any place in London etc. And i know that it is absolutely the job I want as im already working in deliveries by bike.

Please dont point me towards either this or this as ive read everything there and im pretty sure this isnt covered by either. I've also looked through every thread on here and none of these companies are mentioned.

Would south/ east/ west or whatever other drinks be a good place to come and ask about this stuff? I know john snow and the duke of york are haunts but I dont want to be crashing peoples after work thing with my question time.

Im afraid this is the wrong place. Im not sure anyone on here is a courier. Stick with Moving Target, have you posted on there forum?

contrary to popular belief, there are plenty.

me, for one.

nimhbus any opinions on this?

go on!

sorry, i don't know the first thing about it, apart from you have to take things from one place to another place, on a bike.

i'm sure there's a lot more to it than that though.

if you need the work,then get in with whoever will take you on...
you can always jump ship if something comes up at one of the better firms

right you are rpm. Rep added later for a sensible answer!

for the sake of fuck.

nimhbus you get some aswell because it was raining today and because I can

yay!

back at you!

Apparently I cant rep either of you because I have to spread the love. i cant do that.... to many cunts.

yessssss!

The 'best' courier company may not be the best place to start; do you really really know your way around? Could you go from Maiden Lane to Vigo street and on to Beauchamp Place and then pick up from the Telegraph and drop at Prowse Place without looking in your A-Z? If so then fine, you could do well at any company. If not then a busy circuit might overwhelm you at first.
The only way to get a courier job is to get a courier job; not many places will take you on if you have no experience so find one that will and if it's crap then after a few weeks you can think about moving to somewhere better and will have a much greater chance of being taken on.
It will do you no harm either to meet and befriend other couriers, learn from them what their companies are like and find out quicker if there are vacancies.
Ultimately there isn't that much difference between the main, decent, companies. Some are more city based, some more west end, some do more distance etc.
If you want to be a courier then get stuck in. The first few weeks are often the worst and the least profitable but if you get thru them then you'll start to enjoy it.
Good luck and don't overlook Moving Target, it really is the best site for first hand knowledge of the business.

I think I will start out at one of the companys that my friend has been working at if I can. Although I would love to work at one of the more widley known companys I appriciate that getting to grips with everything at a smaller company is obviously going to be a good idea. I would say I've cycled around most of London pretty extensivly although Im sure I would be using googlemaps and gps alot to start with (gadgetry) which has helped me find some obscure parts of the city that aren't even on a mini a to z. I can't wait to get to it though to be honest. I suppose I'm trying to go about getting it right straight away rather than learning from mistakes. Although I'm sure I'll manage a few.

not much work on at the moment, from what i hear.

I was talking to a few couriers at london's calling:

credit crunch + summer holidays = no work.

no-ones sure if it will pick up in september or not but the general consesnsus is that it's probably not going to.

miserable fuckers.

even bill is saying there are too many couriers now. I wont be going back to it.

You still listen to anything Bill says? Newbie ...

shit .... Back on the dole I go.

all bill ever told me was MPC Duck Lane to W1

and of course you don't!! jajaja

how are yuo J.

Rik are you Colombian by any chance, cause I have a Colombian mate that laughs with 'j's when he types stuff on Facebook.

just spanish, that for this mater will be the same

maybe I should go the way of igor kenk?! There's got to be money to be made like that.

Every industy I try an enter seems full of pesimism from people inside that industry about employment prospects. It's tmes like this when there's a global economic downturn when world wars start. Maybe a couple of billion people less and the planet will be able to loosen it's belt again.... I am thinking like a genocidal loonatic!!!! Hooray for shit jobs, no food, no rent money and unemployment, all at a time when people I know can practically invoice for breathing.

Yeah, I had a spanish girlfriend once who used to express laughing in writing in this way:ji ji ji ji !